Addressing inequalities through the MPDSR system: Lessons learned from Sierra Leone
On International Women’s Day 2022, March 8, 2022, the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, WHO Geneva and the Network for Improving the Quality of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health hosted a webinar to share Sierra Leone’s experience in addressing preventable maternal and perinatal deaths during pregnancy and childbirth by implementing […]
Lessons from engaging the private sector in delivering quality maternal and newborn health services in Ghana
The Quality of Care Network in partnership with the World Health Organization is exploring mechanisms for engaging the private sector in delivering maternal and newborn health services with quality. Beginning with scoping exercises in Bangladesh, Ghana and Nigeria, the exploratory project is documenting the lessons from private sector delivery of quality maternal and newborn health […]
Improving Health Worker Performance: Lessons from a global review of programs & Malawi’s experience and learning
Tuesday 15 June 2021 at 8am EDT, 2pm CEST and CAT Improving health worker performance in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remains a major challenge. This webinar looked at the global level sharing the findings from a systematic review of the effectiveness of more than 100 strategies in LMICs to improve the performance of health […]
Health workers’ perspectives
Summary COVID-19 has affected the ability of health workers to maintain quality maternal, newborn and child health services. This webinar looks into how COVID-19 has affected health workers’ ability to deliver care, how they have adapted, and how they are coping to deliver essential, quality MNCH services during the pandemic. The speakers shared findings from the recent […]
Deliver the care they are entitled to (session 1)
To end preventable newborn and child deaths, care for small and sick newborns requires: High coverage of quality neonatal services, with family-centered models of care, organized in a network of facilities with a functional referral system Sufficient numbers of health-care providers with skills to care for small and sick newborns, working in partnership with parents […]
Cleaner hospitals for better quality of care- the example of Ethiopia’s Clean & Safe Health
On 9 February, the Quality of Care Network hosted a webinar on ‘Cleaner hospitals for better quality of care: the example of Ethiopia’s Clean & Safe Health Facility Initiative’ Molla Godif Fisehatsion and Tewodros Fantahun presented the Clean and Safe Health Facility initiative (CASH), a programme of the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health to make healthcare facilities clean, […]
Sustaining improvement
The Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (Quality of Care Network) held a webinar on ‘Point of care quality improvement for maternal and newborn health – Step 4: Sustaining improvement’ on 29 June. Nigel Livesley present ideas for quality improvement teams to ‘hardwire’ a quality improvement project in order […]